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A brief history of Germany

Coy, Jason P.

New York Checkmark Books 2011

288 p. illus. 23 cm.

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This book includes the formation of a distinctive German language and culture during the Germanic migrations and the confrontation with Rome, the consolidation of medieval principalities in the wake of the collapse of Carolingian authority and the construction of the Holy Roman Empire, the tumultous events of the Reformation and the devastation of the Thirty Years' War, the unification of Germany, the rise of Prussian imperialism in the 19th century, the two World Wars, the rise of Nazism, and the Holocaust, the experience of a divided Germany during the cold war, the country's eventual reunification as the Federal Republic of Germany, and the contemporary Germany.

This book includes the formation of a distinctive German language and culture during the Germanic migrations and the confrontation with Rome, the consolidation of medieval principalities in the wake of the collapse of Carolingian authority and the construction of the Holy Roman Empire, the tumultous events of the Reformation and the devastation of the Thirty Years' War, the unification of Germany, the rise of Prussian imperialism in the 19th century, the two World Wars, the rise of Nazism, and the Holocaust, the experience of a divided Germany during the cold war, the country's eventual reunification as the Federal Republic of Germany, and the contemporary Germany.

This book includes the formation of a distinctive German language and culture during the Germanic migrations and the confrontation with Rome, the consolidation of medieval principalities in the wake of the collapse of Carolingian authority and the construction of the Holy Roman Empire, the tumultous events of the Reformation and the devastation of the Thirty Years' War, the unification of Germany, the rise of Prussian imperialism in the 19th century, the two World Wars, the rise of Nazism, and the Holocaust, the experience of a divided Germany during the cold war, the country's eventual reunification as the Federal Republic of Germany, and the contemporary Germany.